SHOPPING GOES TO ITS ULTIMATE DIMENSION

HONG KONG – A BLEND OF THE WORLD

This day started as a great cloudy (polluted) day in Asia. Sunday means that all helpers (maids) mostly Philippians, have the day off so they picnic all over the city. Although they are far from home and family, it is a delightful sight watching hundreds of women enjoying their day.

Finding bargains while watching beautiful faces, Kim and I shopped in the Kowloon pennisula called Monkok & Fa Yuen Markets. After a while the mammoth volume of consumer goods begin to blur into one gigantic pile of bright colors & textures—silks, cottons, pashimas, plastics, & shiny attachments everywhere. You can find anything you want from anywhere in the world in the shops in Hong Kong. Yes, we did buy a few small things but mostly walked and looked. Tomorrow we go to City Central for more sights & smells of the city.

View from Kim & Don's home

My niece, Kristen, who also lives here in Hong Kong, just returned from a Service trip to Vietnam with the Christina Noble Childrens' Foundation. She assisted children in an orphanage and those with Cerebral Palsey. Kristin also volunteered with Habitat for Humanity in Mongolia this summer installing insulation. She had great things to say about the Habitat experience.

Tomorrow more sights in Hong Kong then off to Katmandu.

Jet-lag has abandoned. More later.....................